LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
During a Water Safety Demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall,
During a water safety demonstration at Port Isaac, Cornwall, the local IRB and the Padstow life-boat, with other organisations, combined to show what happens when, for example, a sailing dinghy is upset. Here the Port Isaac IRB is making for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oranmore
Valentia, Co. Kerry - On 20th February, 1970, the life-boat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings to go to the help of the M.V. Oranmore.
A full account of this service will appear in the next number of THE...
Major General Sir Robert Pigot
Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bart, CBE, QBE, DL, RM, a vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Robert became president of the Isle of Wight lifeboat board in 1975 and in the same year was elected on to the committee of management. In recognition...
Category: Obituaries
Guests of Honour:
Guests of honour: several lifeboatmen were among the guests at a special Variety Club of Great Britain lunch at London's Hilton Hotel in December, to honour HRH The Duke of Kent, the heroes of the lifeboat service and leading members of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles Hunter-Pease Sales and Marketing Director
Charles Hunter-Pease, Sales and Marketing Director for Volvo Concessionaires (left) presents a cheque for £350.000 to Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI at the London Boat Show. The cheque represented the proceeds of the seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Friends In Saudi.
You'd be amazed at how far around the world support for the RNLI reaches. Employees of BAe Systems, who live in Saudi Arabia, attend a club, The Cage, which has raised a staggering £16,000 for the RNLI over the last eight years..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pancake Race
Friends and work colleagues from several Penarth supermarkets and highstreet stores got together on Shrove Tuesday to take part in a sponsored pancake race in aid of the RNLI.
The picture shows the Lord Mayor of Cardiff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hunstanton 's Boathouse Was Built In 1867.
Hunstanton 's boathouse was built n 1867. became a fisherman's store in 1931 when the station closed ana was re-opened in 1979. The view from the dunes at the lower left can be seen in the heading photograph.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portsmouth - Langstone Harbour - D Class Loni Raglan
The Right Honourable The Lord Raglan names Portsmouth's new D class inflatable Lord Raglan.
Funds for the new lifeboat were raised by the landlord and customers of a pub of the same name.
Photo Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peterhead (1)
PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE On the 15th December, 1942, the Peterhead life-boat rescued the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Loch Wasdale, of Aberdeen.
CAPTAIN JAMES WINTER, harbour master, acting as coxswain, was awarded...
Category: Medals